How Therapy Can Help

People seek therapy for many reasons. You might be struggling with debilitating depression and/or anxiety. Or you may find yourself repeating self-defeating patterns in work or relationships. You may be content, confident and capable in one area of your life but find these strengths inaccessible to you in other situations. Therapy can be helpful in learning to develop better communication in all kinds of relationships, it can help you through a difficult transition, and with low self-esteem. Psychotherapy can help with these and many other issues as well.

Therapy may focus on immediate issues that can benefit from a practical, problem-solving perspective; or therapy may be more depth-oriented, focusing on long-standing, problematic patterns in relationships or work. Often, a mixture of the two approaches will lead to the most enduring changes.

If you are stuck you may be mystified as to what’s keeping you there. Or, you may already have an intellectual grasp of the origin of your problem but still find it difficult to make changes. I believe we have innate signals that can provide valuable guidance in our lives. Therapy can help you get better at sifting through conflicting, confusing, or overwhelming experience and identifying those inner signals that can guide you toward a more satisfying, authentic life.

I welcome any questions you may have about therapy in general, its effectiveness, and more information about my own approach to doing therapy. Starting psychotherapy often takes courage. I have been practicing for 21 years and I can say that I have seen the courage of my clients pay off many, many times.